A STAMP-INSPIRED house that sits on a man-made pond in the Daintree rainforest at Cape Tribulation has taken out Queensland’s top residential architect award.

Port Douglas architect Charles Wright spent five years working on the project, which has won the Robin Dods Award for Residential Architecture - House (New) at the Australian Institute of Architects’ Queensland Architecture Awards.

Owned by stamp collectors Rodney and Marider Perry, the six-bedroom sustainable home, called Alkira, features portholes which cast perforated light into the home similar to stamp edges.

A pool in the centre of the home is shaped like the profile of the One Pound Jimmy stamp and the property is classed as a cyclone shelter.

The pool in the Stamp House is shaped like the One Pound Jimmy stamp.Source:Supplied

Purchased for $1.725 million in 2006, the property is now on the market for $9 million.

The home sits within 29.5ha of rainforest and has six bedroom pods branching out from the central living area plus a 2400 bottle temperature-controlled wine cellar.

The living area of the Stamp House.Source:Supplied

Another award winner last night was the Highgate Hill House by Twofold Studio and Cox Rayner Architects, which took out the Queensland Chapter Award for Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions).

The transformed worker’s cottage sits on a narrow inner-city block and a soaring roof opens the interior to the north, allowing in filtered light, and to the south connects the home to the rear garden.

Aubrey Job and Robert Froud’s Torbreck Apartments in Highgate Hill has been honoured 55 years after its completion, winning the Robin Gibson Award for Enduring Architecture.

Queensland’s first multi-unit, mixed-use residential development, Torbreck was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register in 1999.

The jury selected Torbrek for its for its ‘innovative construction techniques, effective passive climate control, acoustic privacy and robust construction materials that has offered an enduring model for current apartment design’.

Aubrey Job’s son Anthony Job accepted the award on behalf of his late father and practice partner.

The Queensland Chapter Council chose to name the prestigious award this year after architect Robin Gibson, following his death in March.

The University of Queensland’s Advanced Engineering Building (AEB) by Richard Kirk Architect and HASSELL was the big winner of the night, taking home three named awards - the FDG Stanley Award for Public Architecture, the GHM Addison Award for Interior Architecture and the Harry Marks Award for Sustainable Architecture.

The projects will now progress to the 2014 National Architecture Awards to be announced in Darwin on November 6.

More than 320 people attended the awards ceremony last night at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.

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